The AP reports that the U.S military said two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb outside Camp Victory, the military’s main base in Baghdad. Military officials said the bomb used armor-piercing explosives known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs — “the trademark of an Iranian-backed Shiite militia.”

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